Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.

I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.

God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!

No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our children's minds?

Facts are God’s native tongue.

The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

I love my brothers' kids. It's funny - as an uncle, you become so protective of them.

Villains are fun to play.

Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mission.

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

Faith has need of the whole truth.

I've never had a dream that didn't come true, if I waited long enough.